Aco directed police actions: SDT on Lazović's role in Mijajlović's criminal organization

Suspected head of organized crime group Aleksandar Mijajlovic He practically gave permission to certain police officers to go "hunting" for cigarette smugglers, but only if their actions had no connection with his smuggling crew.

This is evident from his telephone communication with the arrested police officer. Vladan Lazović, which special prosecutors cite in the order to conduct an investigation against the group.

The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) charges him with abusing his position as an official, disclosing classified information and providing logistical support to an organized crime group.

This allegedly enabled members of the network to evade police checks, hide traces of excise goods smuggling, and continue their multi-million dollar business without the risk of arrest.

They're all dead, they're not ours.

On September 10, 2018, the then inspector of the Special Police Department informed Mijajlović that they were starting to inspect companies that store goods in the warehouses of the Podgorica Aluminum Plant (KAP).

"There are quite a few companies in the KAP warehouses that store various goods, including cigarettes. We're going to check there to see if there's anything important for you there," he asks the now-arrested businessman.

He then explains to him that the police suspect that "they were storing the stuff from Bar there"...

"I guess they're all involved in this." Mladen Asanovic i Bucko Milosevic", adds Lazović.

Mijajlović replies: "Both of you are messing around. Feel free to shout whatever you can," after which Lazović replies with "Ok."

In the continuation of the same communication, on April 27, 2021, Mijajlović now asks Lazović if they are controlling the coast:

"Bro, do you have any controls down there these days?"

The then chief police inspector in the group investigating high-level corruption and money laundering crimes in the SPO replied that this was not true.

"No, brother, as far as I know. We're doing something completely different," the policeman explains.

Mijajlović thanks them: "Ok, ok... thank you. Someone told the Greens that you are coming to control foreigners these days... Everything is under control, just so I know."

Lazović says he will conduct additional checks and let him know in the morning.

"Thank you," writes the suspected head of the criminal organization, and adds: "Like these two days, everything downstairs needs to be inspected."

Don't doodle too much.

The SDT states that the reasonable suspicion that Lazović was tasked with delivering data on planned police inspections of companies, on Mijajlović's orders, also stems from their communication, during which they inform him that "Mića Perović and the Centroproizvod warehouse are operating."

"We're tinkering around with it a bit, so we don't make a mistake."

Mijajlović replies: "Ok, ok ... RIP sped has nothing to do with us", and then the accused Vladan Lazović sends him: "Ok, I'll let you know that there is a vacancy for that company"

Mijajlović then gives him permission to go after "this Mić", but not to go too far because their goods are also nearby.

"And for this Mića, they can do anything. He bought it and they're doing something wrong... Just don't go around too much. We're close by too," says Mijajlović.

The police officer reports: "Sure, big call. Thank you."

Mijajlović, however, continues to send messages: "Loncarsped is with them... So you can have him too"...

A hybrid coup?

Deputy Prime Minister Momo Koprivica recently announced that the criminal organization of businessman Aleksandar Mijajlović attempted a hybrid coup, describing the SDT's evidence as "clear as a tear."

In a show on Television Vijesti, he said that although he does not receive information from the prosecution, he believes that the honorary president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) is at the top of the pyramid. Milo Djukanovic and that there is information that there will be new arrests as the investigation continues.

"I believe that the goal of Aleksandar Mijajlović's criminal organization is a hybrid coup d'état. And the criminal organization he created is a kind of pyramid and platform for taking over state functions not only for the sake of personal enrichment, for the sake of rising above the law, but also for the sake of taking over state functions outside the constitutional framework. There are also structures connected to them, therefore, precisely with this criminal organization. I do not influence the Special State Prosecutor's Office. It is completely independent," Koprivica said at the time.

Everyone in the group

The Special State Prosecutor's Office suspects that Mijajlović, in addition to Lazović, was directly assisted in his criminal activities by the suspected high-ranking police and secret service officials Drago Spičanović and Milovan Pavicevic, as well as his cousin, prosecutor Andrijana Nastić, who provided him with classified intelligence and information.

The organizer of the criminal group, according to prosecutors, received data obtained through secret surveillance measures, the content of numerous intercepted conversations, and allegedly had access to intelligence data and recordings from the National Security Agency (ANB) from the accused members on a daily basis for years.